The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1941-12-20 [p PAGE SIX] · 2018. 1. 1. · Ross and McLain,...

Stage = the =-- JUMPIN’ JIVE - —= by ulysses boykin Dig old throbbing Detroit Is now girded for the biggest order in me history of the nation . . that is to the national defense wheels of ndusry grinding out . . . Ami with all this mass production working the daylights out of some and leaving the rest on WTA and the Wel- fare . the promoters and directors of our cinematic palaces, the night clubs and valley hot spot*, etc., etc., are anticipating a land office busi- ness in taking care of the lighter side of the swelling Motor City work- ers. PEACE BROTHERS— Christmas is just about here with its spirit of love for everyone and the boys in the valley are showing It with their 7th big Faradise Valley Christmas Fund program; also at the Three Sixes they will told their benerit cabaret party Deo. 19 where everyone will have the "spirit'' of brotherly love. Then with all‘of this fine talent moving in for the Delta convention < Girls. don't disappoint us!) It will the remaining playboys to work overtime. KEEP SMILIMi— It must be remembered that entertulnment i« a wry Important feature of national defense. Don't let the war news get yon down in the dumps, "keep the morale <>i the populace up by providing good entertainment and recreation" has always been the motto of coun- tries at war. **<> here are some hints for keeping your morale up. Bt all means oi- the »h*»w at the Three sixes (they have liquor n<»w tool. Jessye bruit, bilk'd a* the “Blond Bombshell** almost steals the show from the headliners “Badeliffe and Rodgers* Riot of Kun.” Miss Scott in her black teltet. with her acrolmflc tap routine and husky torn I numbers draws quite a hand. Badeliffe and Rodgers still bring down the house though with their comedy nuntbir. and the short guy’s melodious voice rang- ing from fahetto to baritone, almost. Ross and McLain, the smoothest dancing team of ballroom ar* thts to hit thes»* purls in a long time are Mr. and Mrs., by the way, they dance with a grace and skill (hat only comes after long hours of practice. . Uilla Mae l ane does one of the u-ual partial strip Hml shake dance numbers. R* only novelty being the costume, ronslsting of •hands” covering the strategic portions of the anatomy ... If you get what I mean. Leon Warrick, the lavritone with the rich voice, still finds fuvnr with the patrons whether he be in atmospheric be-ragged costume, or dressed up in a tux. Personally, we prefer him In his tnx. He has just that kind of voice and bearing. The grand little Imnd, Bennie t arew, still rates a- tops In this man’s town. All comers challenged. Three >ixe*’ patrons «cem to agree. . TOP SPOT There s a noted ir ; r r • :n th* atmosphere a' the Blackhawk. The Cain bro’he's have • • shly di-rouraged that "fighting" ele- ment si.-' drove vmo >'f •! • ■:-1* tier- a'v. y so ali are welcome to enjoy at ev mg of fur. ar. i . :.’e: tain:r.. r. - . in peace a? that famous epot now tl *T’ >n...- (a ri and i >■: •• her art uling the roost. Jazz- bo William? , M <’., directs a flo< -h w « mpov lof headliner talent. The band kfcj.« ’he r * ■ 4l ‘ ’in;;.: and ’he rats and drink* are above par. The I.voiles• s;or th« west*.iU w tilrh has a!! th atmosphere of th "Valley" the Bh.ckhawk. The P «:.•! C. para !: * Va!>>- - or;g t il ’he.iter bar has a show that ke*ps he ; '.a. r jat) I t"> the dor • - md allows standing room cnlv wl: >• 1* s g in* rn. Spatkpl’.c George. the comedian, tncidently, was in the cast of ’hi* "Mikado in ~w ;g Princess Minnola. billed as a "Slave Dan •■T" real,* - throw ;• .v.iujnd l.k« it belongs to nobody. Jimmy Milk, the MC. k*»-;s *.. w moving at a fast pace. Eit-1 Dan er. the rnv pr ;!••• at flub Congo goes in for the unique and dar.ng cffo« •s. In f. L> show- could be called amazing. But d-eg the cp * i l.ke p ? j.-- to them pound those tables! Those "Beach < w;M a- 1 ; » -ior.ate dancer* flf you can call their fc t a- g.vr or.e • ■ •>■•;:(.* of watching an exciting scene on some o »u*h S' < >U -• r P • • e •ravage in you.” Orlando Rr ''er- r. •!.,• ■ ivy id ’*:.■• ’he ladies sighing over their crvk’a vv.-h I.v «*•:.’ mental numbers M the longest theater bar In Detroit (Cozy Corner), Tyrone Board *ing* In a way faintly reminiscent of Itlng Crosby. They have a show seven night- a week now which mean* the “Joint keeps jumping.** < hark* \ny, manager, and Mac Ivey, proprietor, really hnvo som« thing there. Out northern! wav »t Broad’s Club Zombie, Jimmy Smith Is still dancing out hi* own music atop hi* contraption. The new revue, •)Vinter Wonderland” dance by the t Taylorettcs I* tip to the good edd lav h r standard, sum touche (seem* strange not to *ay Peggy) 1* our vote for top* a* an M.C. for getting the crowd In the mood. Bobby key*, good-looking M.t . at Doc Washington's I ncle Tom'* Plantation keep* pace with an entertaining show. Torch singer* lo shake dancer*, they’re always keeping the crowd cheer, tng. The crowd Ju*f *it*. munches on that ta*ty barbecue, and yells for more. • Out i th« Champion Bar. that «oft music on the solo-vox (instru- ment a'(ached to the pan > i« what gets ’em. The expert mtxolozlsts at the bar who fix you up w;»h ft cure for ftll your trouble*, and make you fee', gny nr* really all right. The customers just won't let Blark Beauty lElla Lee i leave. Which Is one way of saying that an enter- tainer ir. is' have the goods If she ran make them always come back for more. ECHO THEATRE T"™" 0 ! .■ Theatre for Partiealar People TO. R-17&0 Snndny and Monday. Dor. 21 and » Open 1:30 P.M. Sunday Joan Perry and Ko*rr Pry° r In “BULLETS FOR O’HARA” Ann Shirley In “WEST POINT OF THE AIR” March of Time -Yorway In Remit” Pinto Cartoon “Plnfo** Dream Home- Tuesday, Wednesday and Thnrsday. Dee. 23, 21 and 25 Open 1:30 P.M. Chririma* Day Tom Seal and Carol llinrhe* In “THE MIRACLE KID” Geortre Raft and Panl Muni In “S C A R F A C E” Andy Clyde Comedy “A Hori to a Ghott” Friday and Saturday. Per. and 27-Open 1:*0 PJI. Saturday France* Farmer and Rleardo Cortea In “WORLD PREMIER” Georre Hoarion la “THE LONE RIDER IN GHOST TOWN” Fdrar Kennedy Comedy -It Happened AH sl*ht” Eplmde II -The Iron Claw” and Uteri Paramount Kent Hl* Mldnite Show Etery Saturday Tlfit—4 Feat a ret After • P.M. THE DETROIT TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1941 Mill IIP! HE’S TERRIFIC WITH ONE LEG AND A PEG ** *aMa aaaw rvtfflCK * s&f’ :'* l '' ■ TOsHp! -i SMt ' WwKSb. y . fi JJ[ -i Opening hi* Friday nt swanky t tub Congo Is Pegleg Bates, a dancer extraordinaire. An Inter- national star of many show*. Bate*’ sensational performance* have been hulled by dunce critle* a* n magnificent work of art. Eurl Dancer’* “Barbnry Coast Revue” also feature* OrlHiido Roberson and hi* Congo orchestra. Book Name Bands For New Theatre t Ben and Lou Cohen’s New Paradise theater, former- ly Orchestra Hall, Woodward at Parsons, opens Friday, Dec. 26 at 1 p.m. with Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, the famous “Trumpet King of Swing.” and his recording swing band inaugurating a weekly stage show schedule that will include a big line-up of* int»nationally known sepia at-j tractions. Arm-trong. whose trumpet mas- . tery paved the way for his recent ; film exploits In support cf such stais as Jack Benny, Ding Crosby.! and others, brings with him hLs full I quota of "swing stars” Including j Sonny Woods, romantic singer; A#n naker. petite song stylist; Luis’ Russell, Jay C. Higginbotham and Joe Garland, in addition to num-,! erous sepia variety performers headed by the Two Zephyrs, panto-, mimists: Joyner and Foster, crack comedy team, and Big Time Crip, sensational one-legged danttr. j The Paradise theater will re-jaln ' open from 1 p.m. to 1 a m. daily, i with a complete midnight show ev- ery Saturday. A gala m<dright performance is scheduled for New Year's Eve. A first run motion pic- ture will supplement the weekly stage shows. Fopular prices will j ! prevail. Forthcoming Paradise stage stars include Cab Calloway and bis recording orchestra; Maxine Sulli- van. famous swing songstress; Bill Robinson and Jimmie Lunceford’s band; the Four Jnkspots ami the Sunset Royal orchestra; Count Ba- sie and his noted aggregation of artists; I.il Green and Tiny Brad- shaw's band; AnJy Kirk aid hi* "Clouds of Joy” orchestra: the Deep River Boys with 35 performers in an all-colored revye; "Har- lem Merry-Go-Round” witai Fess ! Williams’ band and Earl Hines and his orchestra, and others. To Dedicate Chapel .. FORT CUSTER -The seven $17,000 chapels here were dedi- cated last Sunday, December 14 in 1 seven separate ceremonies. Bishop Raymond J. Wade of Detolt was selected as guest speaker. Fort Custer officials also participated ; in the ceremonies. ♦AMERICA’S LARGEST BLACK AND TAN* THE CLUB WITHOUT A "CLIP” Proudly I^resents 3 GREAT STAR STUDDED FLOOR SHOWS Q NIGHTLY AT 9:30 - 11:30 - 1:30 O HI DE HI! HO DE HO! * FEATTRING • A Bohbjr K* jx Production real ‘VARIETIES OF 1941’ FRIED MEET THE ruirircu Oh Sank * PEOPLE CHICKEN • nVSCv W • mTi wxo • Ju*t like the )f b *The Great Rector South (!< CONTOHTIOMST Bar-B-Q MiTIJrAAO Davis RIBS >7 WfiF Hw/** Gertrude Calloway 1 hey melt In *Edna Mae Johnson your month ~ *Gabriel ALMA And HU Trumpet CMITU DOCTOR WASHINGTON’S UNCLE TOM’S PLANTATION We do Not Sell Altes Lager or Imperial Beer. 8200 WEST EIGHT MILE ROAD NOW APPEARING AT THE CHAMPION NEW THEATRE-BAR Oakland, cor. Holbrook •ELLA (BUCK BEAUTY) LEE < Detroit’s Charming Lady of Song Plus JIMMIE CALDWELL’S MUSIC WITH SUE AT THE PIANO Frankie Bradford at the Solo>Vox —APPEARING NITELY—EXCEPT TUESDAY 4. ■ - ♦ 1 Sunday Cocktail Hoar 4:30 to 7:30 P.M. A CHRISTMAS DAY COCKTAIL HOI K * Get the Habit and Visit the Champion Bar the Early Part of the Week No Waiting Prompt Service. DANCE TEAM IN B- AND C ’S SNAPPY SHOW 1 I t 'C\ vk-4' ;' j ; IB (C) ITraveling 1 Traveling s.ooo mil** from New York. I have at last found out the truth about the theatrical world of the south. The sunn> south has nothin* compared with the Braoad- way of New York with its electric lights strung from one block to an- other. good places to rat or to go dotting the street and the feeling that when you walk down its ave- nues. you are surely entering the gates of Heaven. Nor will it ever as long as it keeps Its policy of clos- ing its doors on colored entertainment. You walk the streets of Baton Rouge, or anv other big little city and very, very rarely *lll you see a colored actor or actress in neon signs. White managers Just refuse The versatile Moore Sisters wide- ly Declaimed song and dance team who are appearing nitely at the B and (’, Detroit’* original theater bar, located In the heart of I’arudKe > alley, Beacon and St. Antoine. I Noise Is Cause Os Racket While James Barber. 28. 66S Mou’i ilmf was visiting his bro- ther, Ellis Barber and wife, Cath- erine. 1761 20th street, the landlord Victor Truly, f>2, came to the apart- ment door and asked James not to talk too loud. This brought on an argument between James and the landlord which ended in a fight. Victor Truly struck Barber with a milk bottle cutting him on the left ear, nose, and forehead, and also fra< luring his skull. Alberta Truly. 31. stabbed Barber In the back with a large meat fork. The police arrived and arrested Mrs. Alberta Truly and also her husband Vic- tor. Both are being held for investi- gation charged with felonious as- sault. Teachers Support Defense The Detroit Federation of Teach- ers through the resolution on national defense, is simply reaffirming the principles which have always guided it in the relation to the teaching of children and the wel- fare of the nation, according to Florence M. Sweeney, president of the Federation. She stated: “We are sure that teachers are a vital bulwark against attacks on our democratic society and that they will take the motive part they have alawys taken in support of democratic institutions. “The members of the Detroit Fed- eration of Teachers will, as well as other teachers, give their utmost to the cause of preserving the Ameri- can way of life.” South’s Shows Nothin? Like North to hire them, not because stars haven't drawing Pnw . r ?* because they are prejudiced in„2 they hunt up some inferior ,2 entertainers each w ~k . ,V2s| convince themselves that the* b Just as good an artist yu\ JV* gerald, Count Bade. Noble Si«u Jimmie Lunci font Ki -kiw h ’ kins, and that they not onlvriT ing "their talent ~ rhanee. K so keeping the big m ney out colored folk', band- ' I’ntil the "gb.riott <ottth aw>k ens to the fa. t th.v they ir . the losing side in : 1U u , * the cold, they sb.ii n(. m , Broadway, ev. non , raa || l(al , like the one in Now York No' they’ll never have a Firoadwiy*' OPENING FRIDAY, DEC 19th PEGLEG BATES, ,"„ N “BARBARY COAST REVUE” Staged and Conceived by Earl Dancer ORLANDO ROBERSON and the CLUB CONGO ORCH SUNDAY BLUE HOUR Tuesday Twilight Hour no"cover”charge Jgr IW* J! COMING NEXT slim jones’ Ba! Last-minute Christmas shoppers... WRITE down Iho nun* ol «w*ry RUN to your noarost package SAT to tho dealer, "Four Rom man on your gilt lift... store... for all I" Here's the last word in a gift for men! iprr ""** A BLIND OP STRAIGHT WHISKIES-90 PROOF. FRANKFORT DISTILLERIES, INC., LOUISVILLE & BALTIMORE 2146 St. Antoine Street, Corner Columbia— Clifford 2s2< Screen PAGE SIX

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